I was looking at a LCD monitor (probably from CrystalFontz) to replace the 3.5" ZIP drive in my Sawtooth. I'm using this computer as mp3 player/tivo/dvd player in my living room, and I was hoping to use the LCD to display things like song title/time, chapter #/movie time, that sort of thing. However my search for a program that would properly communicate with the LCD and the Mac had come up with zilch.Has anyone heard of a program that would do any of the things I'm wanting to do?

have you had a look at tutangeek's mod guide. He has done the exact same thing basically and he made a very nice mod guide for people looking to do the same. See, arn't mod guides great. Everyone should make one for their mods

what os are you running?If you're on linux, make sure that you compile the kernel module for the Serial->USB board that they use, I don't think that it's included with most standard kernels.I don't think that you'll get one to work on the mac.

Edit - Also check out http://centerstageproject.com/Maybe at some point they will include the LCD support themselves. Doesn't seem like they've made much progress at all lately though :-/

I've actually read that one before and am thinking of doing the same with an old Wallstreet I have.

However I was kind of hoping to use Mac OS X on this machine so I could use iTunes. I suppose I could try Unbutu (pardon my spelling) in it, I'm just now starting to use linux and have been curious about it.

Ever since Apple released iTunes for Windows, I've wondered why they never released a Linux version. I guess they don't want to release the source and they don't want to support all the different flavours of Linux. I also guess that by not doing a Linux version, they are giving people one more reason to pick OS X if you're going to switch from Windows.

I am an old linux hac but new to mac, so bear with me on this... if you find the linux code to run your lcd it should run in unix based OS X if you re-compile it. :S Right? or am I as crazy as my wife thinks I am... :woohoo:

Ok, my bad. I guess I spent too much time on the Apple Darwin site. Where they discuss the unix core of OS X. As I said this is all new to me, and unix and linux are so close I guess I lept to conclusions I should not have...perhaps I should read more and post less

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